Main Goal:
To learn techniques to explore and understand data, as well as being able to present that data in an clear, attractive and intriguing way.
Lab 2
Braden Griebel, Luke Fanning, Ahyo Falick, Andrew Duffy
9/4/2019
One4All
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Braden Griebel
About Me:
Hello! I am a Math major and Biochem minor. One question I would like to answer would be what causes seeds to exit a period of dormancy.
Six months after graduation I hope to be in grad school, I don’t know specifically for what, but hopeully something related to statistics. Five years after that I hope to be working on epidemiology for the CDC. During this career I hope my greatest accomplishment is to bring a better understanding of the most effective methods of preventing the spread of malaria. Given this, I hope to learn how to explore data to discover insights about how different variables relate, as well as being able to effectively communicate this to others.
Feedback:
From Luke: You definitely have an admirable goal, and one I can say with certainty we all hope you are able to achieve. With that being said, your explanation of how that goal ties to this class seems somewhat vague, and could likely be improved by simply expanding on your logic behind the exploration of “how different variables relate”.
From Ahyo: I really enjoyed how each of your answers flowed together to create an insightful paragraph. To make this even better you might try to keep either a consistently colloquial or professional tone throughout.
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Feedback:
From Luke: You definitely have an admirable goal, and one I can say with certainty we all hope you are able to achieve. With that being said, your explanation of how that goal ties to this class seems somewhat vague, and could likely be improved by simply expanding on your logic behind the exploration of “how different variables relate”.
Luke Fanning
About Me:
I’m a Statistics and Data Science major. When I first started at CU Boulder, I was a Civil Engineering major, but I slowly realized that it wasn’t something that I was incredibly passionate or good at and have now decided to start in a field where I actually have a strong interest in the subject matter. I am originally from Australia, but I have lived in the US for about 14 years. A non-statistics question I would love to have the answer to would be regarding lane changes during heavy periods of traffic; I would be curious to see if they do indeed slow down traffic, if there is a way to avoid these slowdowns if they are occurring, and just generally what can be done in order to negate stop and start traffic during rush hour. Six months after graduation, my goal is to be in a sports-related field analyzing data and/or just getting my foot in the door for data analysis for a team or organization. With the rise of statistical analysis in baseball, made popular by the movie “Moneyball”, sports analytics and data analysis has become a much larger part of how sports teams evaluate players and understand their skill levels, and five years from now, I would love to be doing that for a living and making a tangible difference in the way sports are understood and comprehended. I would love for my greatest career accomplishment to be enabling sports to be enjoyed by a much larger audience, either by simply improving the quality of the players in the game itself or by developing a much more interesting way of watching and analyzing games to the point where there is a much broader interest in the games beyond the physical game that is being played. Given this, I would love to learn a lot of data visualization skills through R that will allow for data to be concisely presented and easily understandable while also being attractive and intriguing to look at.
Feedback:
From Braden: The way you connected your 5-year goal to a current trend made your writing more interesting. I noticed that in your “Non-statistics related question” the sentence structure is complicated, and I found it to be confusing.
From Ahyo: I thoroughly enjoyed the detail you put into the question you pose about traffic. To make your writing even better you could try to make your ideas more concise for ease of reading.
Andrew Duffy
About me:
I am a Statistics and Data Science major, and like Luke, was originally on the path to become a mechanical engineer. I thouroughly enjoy traveling, and just returned from a trip to China and Japan.
I would really like to know how big the change will be in the upcoming presidential election of voters that vote differently than how they did last election (specifically the difference in number of expected voters for president Trump given his approval ratings).
6 Months after graduation I would love to see myself working outside of the US, specifically Europe, to see what its like to live in a country that isn’t the United States. 5 Years after graduation I would hope to have a stable income with comfort to do hobbies I now enjoy or will learn to enjoy later in life.
I would love to own my own company or consult as a data scientist in the very long term. I imagine being my own boss would be really nice.
Given these goals, I would like to learn how to manipulate and understand data to make conclusions about things that affect my life and the lives of people around me.
Feedback:
From Braden: How you break up your section into paragraphs makes it easy to read. I think that your section on the statistics question is confusingly structured. Specifically, it seems you kept adding qualifications to what you said and I think it might be improved by moving the “voters that vote differently” part earlier.
From Luke: Your goals are laid out nicely and easy to read, as Braden said, with a logical progression that makes sense and seems very achievable. Are there any specific hobbies or jobs that relate to the field of Data science that you are interested in? If so, I would suggest adding them into your paragraph so we can get more of an idea of your 6 month and 5 year plans.
From Ahyo: I really liked how you included tidbits about your personal life and travels as well as the specificity of your question. Your writing might benefit from expanding on your goals for the class.
Ahyo Falick
About me:
I am an applied math major, although I have yet to figure out what I am truly passionate about.
One question I have that might be solved with data science is how many tons of garbage are thrown into the ocean every day.
Six months after graduation I hope to be earning a master’s degree in whichever field I have come to find most interesting during my time at CU. Five years after graduation I would like to have a steady income in a career path that excites and challenges me.
I hope my greatest career accomplishment will be to help in the design or creation of something that will make me a lot of money and also help a lot of people.
In this course I hope to establish a solid understanding of data science that will help me in whatever path I choose.
Feedback:
From Luke: I think your non-statistics question is really interesting, and is something that I’m interested in as well. I think you could even ask more about the levels of pollution in our ocean systems, as there are a lot of detrimental effects caused by pollution in our ocean.
From Braden: You answering in such a clear and straightforward way made your section very easy to read. Your descision to not go into great detail did make sense and did help keep your answers clear, however it also leads to some confusion about what exactly you mean. Specifically, what you hope to achieve in this course remains vague, and I think it could be improved by some detail about what you means by a “solid understanding”